Safeguarding Sound Science

Safeguarding Sound Science from the National Center for Science Education combats misinformation, disinformation, and misconceptions about climate change with actual science. In Season One: Climate Change Edition, Mat Kaplan (former host of Planetary Radio) talks to scientists, teachers, and other experts to explore who's behind some of the more insidious efforts to spread misinformation, how those efforts filter down to schools and classrooms, and what is being done to ensure that everyone, including students, get an accurate climate change education.

Episodes

Hope in the Face of the Climate Crisis: Youth Activism and Leadership

April 23, 2025 • 67 mins

Though climate change represents a clear and present danger for all of us, it is young people who will suffer the most if we don't mitigate global warming. And they understand this. Nearly 70% of 16-25-year-olds are extremely worried or very worried about the climate, according to a recent global study. Faced with this mounting crisis, young people are raising their voices and actively engaging in solutions. Meet three such people ...

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Making Every Classroom a Climate Classroom

April 16, 2025 • 58 mins

What do teachers want and need to know about teaching climate change? And how can they best be prepared to tackle this critical topic, even in places where climate change is considered a taboo subject? Bertha Vazquez, a longtime science teacher and the education director of the Center for Inquiry, has co-written the just-published What Teachers Want to Know About Teaching Climate Change. She tackles these questions, as does guest A...

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Today's Forecast: Climate Change, Trusted Sources, and a Sprinkling of Local Relevance

April 9, 2025 • 62 mins

In a warming world, poison ivy is becoming bigger and itchier. That's the kind of personally relevant message that resonates with everyone, and helps make the impacts of climate change hit home, according to Edward Maibach, award-winning climate communicator and director of George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication. And who better to convey those messages than trusted sources, such as TV weathercasters? So s...

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Zombie Theories Must Die! A Conversation with Climate Communicator Marshall Shepherd

April 2, 2025 • 40 mins

Nationally recognized meteorologist, scientist, and author J. Marshall Shepherd describes zombie climate theories as those that live on, no matter how much the science refutes them time and again. These zombie climate theories, which spread misinformation and misconceptions, are sticky and pernicious and need to be combated by effective science communication, Shepherd says. Join host Mat Kaplan as he explores the many strategies Sh...

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Miseducation in the USA: How Our Kids Are Too Often Denied Climate Facts

March 26, 2025 • 72 mins

Award-winning journalist Katie Worth spent time in schools around the country talking to teachers and students as she attempted to understand the landscape of climate change education in US schools. She chronicles what she discovered in her book, Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America's Schools. Join host Mat Kaplan as he discusses the state of climate change education with Worth and Oklahoma science teacher Melissa ...

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A Century of Disinformation: Naomi Oreskes and the Merchants of Doubt

March 19, 2025 • 52 mins

In her critically acclaimed books, Merchants of Doubt and The Big Myth, Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes argues that well-funded interest groups have purposely sowed doubt and confusion about climate change. Our host, Mat Kaplan, discusses these tactics with Oreskes, how these efforts mirror what's been done to obfuscate in other campaigns such as by the tobacco industry, and how these efforts to distort and misinform have been comb...

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What Climate Change? Michael Mann and Glenn Branch on the Climate Deniers

March 12, 2025 • 47 mins

Scientists nearly unanimously agree that the planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and that humans are the cause. We see evidence of climate change in the increased frequency and intensity of catastrophic weather events, glacier melts, and rising sea levels. Yet climate change denial persists, hampering efforts to combat this crisis. Why? Join host Mat Kaplan as he explores the current state of climate change denial and its r...

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Introducing Safeguarding Sound Science

February 18, 2025 • 2 mins

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Episodes

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Today's Forecast: Climate Change, Trusted Sources, and a Sprinkling of Local Relevance

Zombie Theories Must Die! A Conversation with Climate Communicator Marshall Shepherd

Miseducation in the USA: How Our Kids Are Too Often Denied Climate Facts

A Century of Disinformation: Naomi Oreskes and the Merchants of Doubt

What Climate Change? Michael Mann and Glenn Branch on the Climate Deniers

Introducing Safeguarding Sound Science

Popular Podcasts

Hope in the Face of the Climate Crisis: Youth Activism and Leadership

Making Every Classroom a Climate Classroom